Am Freitag 11 Dezember 2009 22:07:21 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Hello everyone, > > One of the packages I maintain, OpenAFS, is a network file system. As > such, one generally wants it to start before things like gdm that need to > read the user's home directory. However, in Ubuntu, gdm is started by > upstart instead of an init script, and all init scripts are run after the > native upstart jobs are run. > > The best way to address this for Ubuntu would be to introduce an upstart > job for OpenAFS. However, the package is in universe and hence > preferrably shared between Ubuntu and Debian. > > Is there any reason why it would cause problems for me to add an upstart > job to the Debian package, even though Debian doesn't currently use > upstart? (I realize that the logic around deactivating the init script if > upstart is present may be a bit complex, but I suspect we can find ways of > dealing with that.) I assume the job just sit there quiescent until > Debian switches to upstart. > > (Separately, I'm going to look at upstream changes required so that I can > have the openafs init script provide $remote_fs instead of depend on it as > it does now so that it will move earlier in Debian's boot process as > well.) >
Maybe you can add upstart to the Sugests and let a post inst search if there is upstart installed and so add it if avaiable. Just my two cents but it might help. Cheers, Andreas Marschke. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org